Art-Making & Crafting

This leather journal is perfect for jotting down your thoughts or sketching whatever has caught your eye.   Handmade in Philadelphia by Style Thrive Handmade, the journal is sustainably stitched scrap leather.  The maker focuses on...

Handcrafted botanical ink created by Ampersand Textile & Design for fine writing and drawing with dip pens and brushes.   Like the onion, this ink has layers of story in each bottle. The papery skins for this were collected over many months...

This ink is made from the prolific Japanese knotweed.  It is found along the waterfronts, next to roadsides, and in many parks and wooded areas in the Philadelphia region and beyond.  The beautiful pale pinks of this ink come from the leaves...

Coffee Ink inspired by Giuseppe Penone's drawings with coffee and his explorations of he connections we have with nature.   Handcrafted botanical ink created by Ampersand Textile & Design for fine writing and drawing with dip pens and brushes --...

Handcrafted botanical ink created by Ampersand Textile & Design for fine writing and drawing with dip pens and brushes. This small batch was made from bark collected after pruning peach trees with the Philly Orchard Project at the Sankofa Community...

Handcrafted botanical ink created by Ampersand Textile & Design for fine writing and drawing with dip pens and brushes. This small batch was made in Philly with love, from Haas Avocado pits collected over many moons and slowly brewed over multiple...